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Home » Publications » Free Presbyterian Magazine » 2021 » March 2021 » Notes and Comments

Notes and Comments

Truth in the Courts

A 49-year-old “trans woman” (that is, a man) who goes by the name of “Michelle Winter” has been jailed for 15 years for raping a woman. The local newspaper reported that “Michelle Winter, 49, was referred to by female pronouns throughout a trial at Cambridge Crown Court; Winter has the anatomy of a man”. Whatever laws politicians may pass, people have a duty to speak the truth; and this is especially so in courts, where many of the speakers are under oath regarding the truth. In this case, the truth was that the accused was a man (as everybody present knew) and, moreover, this fact was highly relevant to the charge against him. The pretence that he was a woman made the court ridiculous, and contributes in its own way to the subversion of the British legal system. It is a matter of shame for the nation.

DWBS

Neanderthal Man

A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution for March 2021 discusses the find of prehistoric teeth at a site in Jersey and claims that they reveal signs of interbreeding between Neanderthals and homo sapiens.

The 13 teeth had been found between 1910 and 1911 in the south-west of the island. For a long time, they were regarded as typical of the Neanderthal, but a reassessment has uncovered features characteristic of modern human teeth. The scientists say that they might even yield information about the cause of the disappearance of “our close evolutionary cousins”. They believe that Neanderthal Man disappeared many thousands of years ago, just as homo sapiens had newly arrived from Africa and was settling in Europe.

Rather than accept that they are the teeth of “modern men” they plough on with a compromise suggestion that they resulted from interbreeding. Professor Chris Stringer, from London’s Natural History Museum, said, “Given that modern humans overlapped with Neanderthals in some parts of Europe after 45 000 years ago, the unusual features of these individuals suggest that they could have had a dual Neanderthal-modern human ancestry”.

It is said that fact can be stranger than fiction, but these so-called experts do not believe the facts and continue to base their “scientific evidence” upon a fiction. The only evolution we see is the evolution of their hypotheses as new information contradicts their former ideas.

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